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March 1 is Zero Discrimination Day, an annual worldwide event that promotes diversity and recognises that everyone counts.

Print the butterfly, take a picture of yourself holding it and post it with your diversity message on #UCNow, (#ZeroDiscrimination, #UCDiversity).

The Zero Discrimination Day is a UNAIDS campaign of solidarity that stands up to racism, discrimination at work, discrimination at school, and other activities that reduce people’s ability to participate fully and meaningfully in society.

Organisations like the United Nations (UN) actively promote the day with various activities to celebrate everyone’s right to live a full life with dignity regardless of age, gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, skin color, height, weight, profession, education, and beliefs.

The symbol for Zero Discrimination Day is the butterfly, widely used by people to share their stories and photos as a way to end discrimination and work towards positive transformation.

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Mon 29th and Tue 1st: Drop in sessions from 12-1pm for students with an idea for a venture and need some help getting started.

Wed 2nd:Speaker session Troy Bilbrough from Bacon Brothers, and Sam Jones and Hannah Duder from Little Yellow Bird will be talking from 12-1pm. Troy is bringing free bacon sandwiches and has vouchers up for grabs.

Thur 3rd:A Workshop on Decision Making will be hosted by Jen Lund from YourCoach. It’ll be from 12-1pm with lunch on us.

Fri 4th:Challenge Friday. We’ll set a challenge, and in an hour you will form a team and come up with a potential solution. Prizes up for grabs! 3-4pm.

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Roimata is the name given to a sculpture designed by Māori artist Riki Manuel (Ngāti Porou) to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake on 22 February 2011. It was unveiled at a special ceremony on that date in 2018, and tells a story of remembrance.

To Māori, the upside down koru represents death, in keeping with a memorial to those who lost their lives in the February earthquake of 2011.

The surface is undulated to represent Ōtakaro the river Avon, onto which the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch, throw flowers each year in memory of that fateful day. The bronze flowers on the surface depict this ritual.

The sculpture sits at the Clyde Road end of University Drive, a short distance from the Recreation Centre bridge over Ōtakaro where those who attended the unveiling carried out this ritual by throwing fresh flowers onto the river to created a spiritual link with the commemorative service being held later that day in the city.

Roimata, will remain on our campus as a permanent reminder of the earthquakes, and as a focus each year for our remembrance, the loss and suffering of our University community, the contribution they made afterwards, and what the University has become since.